“It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added.
Sounds like the judge got a pay day.
Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion
Submitted 1 year ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to technology@lemmy.world
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skozzii@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s disappointing.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s crazy how if you’re rich you can just nullify any law or legal precedent to get your way. Elons goings to own infowars now
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters. It’s, like, incredible.”
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 year ago
(this is a joke) To be fair I can make the exact same claim. I could murder someone and the number of votes I receive yearly will not be impacted.
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Good watch to explain why the Judge is a dick.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck Judge Lopez for caring more about money than justice.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
He cares about money alright. The deposit he got from interesting parties before making this decision.
dhork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He would never accept a deposit from the interested parties before making this decision. That would be a bribe, and extremely illegal.
He will accept his deposit from the interested parties after making the decision. That is a gratuity, and is now totally legal, thanks to SCOTUS.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s technically the law. Bankruptcy procedures are geared to enable the return of the maximum amount of proceeds for the creditors.
Sealed bid kind of torpedos that I suppose, but considering the shit stain on history that Infowars is, I feel like an exception should have been made here.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Sealed buds are usually better for that.
www.investopedia.com/…/sealed-bid-auction.asp
Each party is incentivised to make the highest offer they’re willing to pay from the beginning, as opposed to negotiating the best price they can get.
Additionally, the families forgiving a significant amount of money as part of the bid should factor in, since the responsibility of the estate is to get the best deal, not the most cash.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sealed bids encourage last and best offers, and prevent the deepest pockets from submitting a “highest plus one” bid that minimizes the proceeds from the sale.
This judge is either a dipshit or corrupt.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s technically the law
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Problem is why did that auction even happen or rather was allowed if it was technically now allowed for a bankrupcy case?
Feels like intentional so they can go “well, we don’t like the winner. time to revoke it”
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Judge Lopez said that the bankruptcy auction failed to maximize the amount of money that the sale of Infowars should provide to Mr. Jones’s creditors, including the Sandy Hook families, in part because the bids were submitted in secret.
“It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added.
So the problem is that it didn’t maximise the potential income for the bankrupcy case?
Shouldn’t that be a “oh well, sucks. but a sale is a sale” problem?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So it’s unfortunately not actually a sale until the judge approves it, it’s just an accepted bid.
Sorta like when buying a car. The salesman tells you the price for the vehicle, overpriced perks, and how much your trade in is worth, and you accept the final price. Then the salesman has to get the floor manager to agree, which they always do, because they’re the ones with authority to approve the sale. Then you can sign the paperwork and exchange money and you’ve actually processed the sale. Until then either party can walk away for any reason.In this case, it’s like the floor manager rejected the sale because the cash part of the sale price was less than MSRP, and they didn’t think the trade in value mattered.
It’s not common for the sale to get rejected, and it’s even weirder for them to reject “not cash” instead of paying attention to value.The judge saying the estate can’t accept debt forgiveness in lieu of cash is just odd, since it reduces the debt more than the cash would.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s up to the lender to accept the settlement. They’re the ones taking the loss.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Whatever gets the sandy hook families the money they deserve.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They wanted the sale to go to the Onion and not some conservative the group more than the money. They were fully on board with taking the lower amount.
sol@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Shouldn’t that be a “oh well, sucks. but a sale is a sale” problem?
“A sale is a sale” works fine when both sides to the transaction are well-informed and acting for themselves. When you are selling assets for someone else’s benefit, you generally have extra obligations to them, because otherwise you don’t really have an incentive to achieve a good price. So courts do generally have some oversight over sale of the assets of a bankrupt estate, to ensure that the trustee is not short-changing creditors just to get the job done quickly.
A complicating factor here is that the Sandy Hook families (who as far as I know are the large majority of the creditors) also supported the sale.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
A complicating factor here is that the Sandy Hook families (who as far as I know are the large majority of the creditors) also supported the sale.
I assume there are other creditors who didn’t?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The market decided.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The market did not decide, given the bids were secret.
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Follow the money
communism@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
No fun allowed
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most bids are sealed. Go bid on any construction job they are sealed. One bidder has no clue what anyone else bid. What the fuck corrupt judge is what they got there.